oversize permits

Most states require you to have a paper copy with you that you have signed. In Alabama they require you to sign your permit in red ink the reason is that they want you to read your permit and the explicitly state read ink in the provisions.

 

They must be in hand or readily available to be in your hand and signed if they have the line for it (most do) . Alabama is very specific about that red ink and better have it. I just hauled an OD load and went through this

 

Printed, buy cheap printer and some extra black cartridges, don't forget to get the provision sheets, some states require them with the permit.

 

Depends on the state. Ohio allows permits to be faxed/copied ect where KY requires the original. Watch your butt nothing makes a DOT officer happier than being able to void a permit for something ignorant. (like signed with the wrong color ink in some states, we all know how dangerous that can be)

 

No states that I know of will just let you read it off the computer.
Like the others have stated you need to print it out. Also sign it if required.
Wa. state this year allmost busted me for not having printed permit.
My laptop died tha morning, but I had old. permit. Same rtes.
Well I get stopped and he asks where is your permit?
Show him the valid permit off my moblie
I explain what happend. He said not my problem, Well I used my pilot car's laptop and printed it out and signed it. Got a written warning no valid permit..

 

Gotta love bureaucratic red tape.

 

have a can of wasp spray next to the permit book in the door pocket

 

I picked up an oversized shippment from Philadelphia going to Miami.
2 p.m on a Friday Maryland scale house shut me down for the weekend til 9 a.m. Monday morning. Permit says in small print which I read "no travle through a toll plaza after 12 p.m on Friday" I told the scale house that there is no toll on the southbound! Doesn't matter, they call the southbound side a "toll plaze" even if there is one on the other side of the interstate.
In Florida, the scale house asked me to hold up my oversized permit out the window before getting the green light.